(Original post by MGIL)you can never trust the internet.
can you just tell me if it is because I'm not 100% sure and nothing 100% is coming up on the google

But you can trust a few random strangers on an internet forum?
Anyway, I'll be merciful: if you look at transcribed e-texts of the play (for example on Project Gutenberg) and search them for the word "spectre", you'll find that it doesn't occur in any version of Hamlet - or any other Shakespeare play, for that matter. So no, it isn't a quote.

(Original post by hobnob)
But you can trust a few random strangers on an internet forum?
Anyway, I'll be merciful: if you look at transcribed e-texts of the play (for example on Project Gutenberg) and search them for the word "spectre", you'll find that it doesn't occur in any version of Hamlet - or any other Shakespeare play, for that matter. So no, it isn't a quote.

well this is a academic forum and I trust others on here more than the silly pages on google I was getting, yes!